"The Vega 2 processor integrates 48 cores and consists of 812m transistors to enable future generations of Azul Compute Appliances to scale up to 768-way symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) systems with up to 768 GBytes of memory," Azul said.

read all about it here

i first read this article in this months issue of the APC mag..how awsome would this system be ti 2x7900GTX in SLI config /drool

mirc would load heaps quick on that thing

You'll probably need your own nuclear power plant to run and cooling needed these things

they are writing it to run.. JAVA.. what deadset f***ing morons.

Strik3r, no offence but you might want to know what you're talking about before going on about crap like that.

A Java binary is no different to a win32 exe, linux ELF, or anything inbetween. The difference is how it is used - with a VM.

Solaris (and the UltraSPARC) are designed for running this code natively, ie, it's virtually as though there's no VM in between (there is, but it doesn't do much).

USD100,000 for this thing though? With 48 cores? f*** THAT!
I can get an 8-core (four native threads per core) 1.2GHz UltraSPARC T1 with a few GB of RAM and a few HDDs for USD8k, or a 1.1GHz 6 core T1 with I think it's 2GB RAM and 2x SCSI HDDs for USD3,995.

The latter I'm actually tempted to do - for personal use.